Drive
The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Ranked #4 in Business Ethics, Ranked #5 in Scrum — see more rankings.
Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better... more
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Reviews and Recommendations
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Tobi Lütke Founder & CEO/Shopify[Tobi Lütke recommended this book in an interview in "The Globe and Mail."] (Source)
David Heinemeier Hansson Takes some of those same ideas about motivations and rewards and extrapolates them in a little bit. (Source)
Jeff Bussgang Recommends this book
Mike Benkovich I'd recommend a sprinkling of business books followed by a heap of productivity and behavioural psychology books. The business books will help you with principals and the psychological books help with everything else in your life. Building your own business can really f!@# you up psychologically. (Source)
Bogdan Lucaciu Spoiler: it’s autonomy, mastery, and purpose. (Source)
David Brudo [One of the books that had an impact on .] (Source)
Rankings by Category
Drive is ranked in the following categories:
- #25 in Adulting
- #11 in Agile
- #11 in Agile Project Management
- #15 in Behavior
- #15 in Behavioral Economics
- #15 in Behavioral Psychology
- #31 in Brain
- #29 in Business
- #56 in Business Development
- #45 in Business Economics
- #27 in Business Management
- #18 in Business Motivation
- #15 in CEO
- #16 in Career Guide
- #12 in Coaching
- #35 in Consulting
- #34 in Creativity
- #28 in Decision Making
- #20 in Education
- #24 in Emotional Intelligence
- #74 in Entrepreneurship
- #36 in Game Changer
- #29 in Game Design
- #42 in Happiness
- #15 in How Things Work
- #30 in Human Brain
- #16 in Human Nature
- #23 in Human Physiology
- #21 in Human Resources
- #13 in Influence
- #77 in Knowledge
- #11 in Leadership
- #34 in Learning
- #45 in Life
- #28 in MBA
- #14 in Management
- #65 in Marketing
- #11 in Marketing Strategy
- #15 in Mentoring
- #22 in Mind
- #31 in Mindset
- #16 in Motivational
- #28 in Personal Branding
- #36 in Personal Development
- #36 in Personal Growth
- #31 in Personality
- #25 in Persuasion
- #32 in Pitching
- #70 in Product Management
- #21 in Productivity
- #28 in Project Management
- #29 in Psycho
- #20 in Psychology
- #38 in Research
- #9 in SAP
- #26 in Sales
- #7 in Sales Management
- #38 in Self Development
- #36 in Self-Awareness
- #49 in Self-Help
- #33 in Self-Improvement
- #18 in Small Business
- #37 in Smart
- #17 in Social Psychology
- #45 in Social Sciences
- #8 in Sports Psychology
- #66 in Startup
- #13 in Studying
- #24 in Success
- #8 in Teacher
- #7 in Teaching
- #33 in Thinking
- #55 in Thought
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